That would be an incorrect answer. We need to shift the focus to the Far East because that is where Japan is, whose kōshitsu, or Imperial House, has been at the helm of the country for over two and a ...

German historian and journalist Wieland Wagner called for Japanese to address the problems of their symbolic emperor system, ...

Let's face it. Imperial Japan stood next to no chance of winning a fight to the finish against the United States. Resolve and resources explain why. So long as Americans kept their dander up ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

The Yamato-class battleships, constructed by Imperial Japan during World War II, were the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built. What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class ...

Kamikaze suicide planes sent by desperate Imperial Japan screamed down from the skies over Surigao Strait in the Philippines, terrifying American sailors, for the first time on this day in history ...

Imperial family members are paying visits to ... Princess Yuriko’s granddaughter, Princess Akiko, returned to Japan from Britain on Saturday morning after having been informed of her condition ...

Japan has lodged a protest with a U.N. human rights watchdog that called for reviewing a domestic law that limits imperial succession to male heirs on the emperor's father side, the top government ...

The Imperial Household Agency on Wednesday released the list of 1,918 invitees to a garden party to be hosted by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Oct ...

Japan’s Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko will launch a five-day visit to Türkiye on Dec. 3 as the two countries ...

Horiki is known for her work balancing the historic and modern needs of the traditional ... maker known as a trusted purveyor to the Japanese imperial family. Traditional Japanese maki-e, mother ...

The cultural performance is set for its next installment at Tokyo Opera City, following showcases in Paris and New York.